Wednesday, December 5, 2012

December Blog Hop - Pear & Partridge



 Welcome to the Roxybonds Scrappers Team December 2012 Blog Hop!  




  We are featuring artwork from the Close to My Heart's Pear & Partridge paper pack.

  If you have come here from Keeley's blog, then you are on the right path. 
  Your next stop will be Amber's blog.

 Today I have created cards using the Pear & Partridge card workshop.
Not only did I do the entire workshop and made 15 cards, but I kept going --- I purchased an extra Pear & Partridge paper pack and made a second set of 15 cards - with just a few modifications to account for smaller card stock and using different stamps in the Pear & Partridge card workshop stamp set.
{now if only I would get my card inserts ready to go, labels printed and the cards mailed -- I would be way ahead this holiday season!  .... but I digress...}

I pretty much stuck to plan and followed the workshop instructions - starting off by cutting all my paper.  I made sure I marked all the parts so I could easily sort the cut paper into their appropriate card "piles".

 Here's a lovely view of my crafting table with most of the paper pieces cut out and labeled.


Here's the card pieces - labeled and now stamped and/or inked and waiting to be assembled.


A better set of pictures to come -- but I just wanted to show my first set of 15 cards all assembled ... am I the only one that is hopeless with rotating pictures?


 Here is one of the cards from the workshop.
For the first set - I stuck to the workshop - I really was looking to see how quickly I could put together 15 cards -- you have to understand -- I can literally spend hours creating a card or two.  Agonizing over colors for paper, ink and embellishments.  That doesn't even account for what gets written inside.  Every now and then I want easy - and yet I want hand made.  This is the first time I have done one of CTMH's card workshops.
This photo is a bit soft - or blurry - but it is the best one I have.  I will say that stamping the Merry Christmas over and over for the background was not my idea of fun!  I would definitely do better with patterned paper --- but I made it!  yeah me!

Love love love the stamps in this set!    I think on one of my cards I have the long green ornament that is on the far right - upside down.  Wonder if anyone will notice.  :)

Now - for slightly smaller cards with a bit of a twist.
 I switched my background ink on this set so I would not have to do 2nd generation stamping --- thus not driving me so crazy.  And since my purchased [blank] cards were slightly smaller the piece I had to stamp for this was smaller and the pattern seemed to work out better for me.  Now - with that said I switched from Cocoa ink to Bamboo ink.  And did I not say that the stamps in this set are wonderful!  I used a different saying for the front:  Christmas is love with all the trimmings
I switched up the saying on this card also and the changed up the stamps.  I really wanted to incorporate the bird stamps so a bit of playing around and I came up with this.  Same basic paper layout as the original - just my own touch with the stamps and yet another saying:  Wishing you harmony and love this Christmas.

One afternoon -- 30 cards.  Whew!  I was tired but very very happy with the outcome .... now about the insides of the cards and the labels ...... never mind ....now hop on over to Amber's blog for your next stop.


Merry Christmas everyone and thanks for stopping by!  Denise.

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